I had a roomate once in college that was expecting a VCR to be delivered from his house in GA. It did not come at first as he went to UPS and had it delivered to his house (wrong to address, he was an Industrial Technology/Systems major......?).
Then, when dad sent it up to Ohio for real, it came by UPS and I got it. I also got from another guy down the hall that worked for Big Brown some of those "you were not here" labels. So I put that it was left at another room, and on that room, I put that the package was left in another room, and when he got there, another room....and so on, and so on...
Not the first or last time I got called an *******....even in that hall (the next one involved an indoor bicycle race involving beer at about 2:00 AM).....
The parcel guys are great here, they just leave it in one of the cars and lock the doors........